Hamlet

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Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.

About the Series

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About This Volume

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PART ONE Hamlet: The Complete Text

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Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts

3

(24)

The Complete Text

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Note on the Text

154

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Textual Notes

156

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PART TWO Hamlet: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

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A Critical History of Hamlet

181

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Feminist Criticism and Hamlet

208

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What Is Feminist Criticism?

208

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Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography

215

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A Feminist Perspective: Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism

220

(21)

ELAINE SHOWALTER

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet

241

(42)

What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?

241

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Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography

251

(5)

A Psychoanalytic Perspective: "Man and Wife Is One Flesh": Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body

256

(27)

JANET ADELMAN

Deconstruction and Hamlet

283

(49)

What Is Deconstruction?

283

(10)

Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography

293

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A Deconstructionist Perspective: Hamlet: Giving Up the Ghost

297

(35)

MARJORIE GARBER

Marxist Criticism and Hamlet

332

(36)

What Is Marxist Criticism?

332

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Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography

345

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A Marxist Perspective: "Funeral Bak'd-Meats": Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet

348

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MICHAEL D. BRISTOL

The New Historicism and Hamlet

368

(35)

What Is the New Historicism

368

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The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography

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A New Historicist Perspective: "Suche Strange Desygns": Madness, Subjectivity, and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture